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Community guidelines

The rules say what ends an account. This page is the other half: how to be somebody other people are glad is here. None of it is enforced, and all of it is the difference between a place worth staying in and a feed.

Credit travels

Every photograph here carries its photographer's name wherever it appears — in the feed, in somebody else's album, on a restop, on a shared link. That is built in and cannot be removed by anybody handling the photograph afterwards.

So do the same off the app. If you screenshot something to send to a friend, say whose it is. It costs nothing and it is the whole of what most photographers are asking for.

Restops

A restop shares somebody else's photograph with your followers, credit intact. It is not a copy: there is one photograph, with one like count, one comment thread and one set of camera settings, and the restop records only that you passed it on.

Restopping the same photograph as somebody else does not spam anybody. Restops of one picture stack into a single card in a reader's feed, however many people passed it on — so there is no reason to hold back in case it has already been shared.

Restop generously. It is the main way work reaches past the people who already follow the photographer, and it costs the person doing it nothing.

You can add a note to a restop by holding the button rather than tapping it. A note that says why you are sharing it is worth more than the restop on its own.

Comments

Critique is welcome when it was asked for and is about the photograph. “The horizon is a degree off” is useful. “This is why nobody follows you” is not critique, and it is the kind of thing that gets an account removed rather than argued with.

If you would not say it standing next to the person while they were holding the print, do not type it.

Hashtags

Tag what the photograph is, not what you want it seen by. A landscape filed under #wildlife wastes the time of everybody who opened that page looking for an animal, and the only thing it reliably earns is being scrolled past.

Two or three honest tags beat ten hopeful ones. Ten is the cap, not a target.

Location

The location on a post is free text you type yourself, so be as vague as you want. There are good reasons to be: a nest, a den, a hot spring or an unmarked trail can be damaged by the traffic an exact location brings, and that damage is not reversible.

Location on a photograph is opt in, and off unless you turn it on. Nothing is attached to a frame because your camera happened to record it — you decide, per photograph, whether a place travels with the picture.

If your camera wrote coordinates into the file, they are still in the file you uploaded. Strip them first if that matters for a particular photograph, and remember that the judgement above about nests, dens and unmarked trails applies whichever way the location got there.

Blocking

Blocking is immediate, symmetric and private. The two of you stop seeing each other at once, any follows between you are removed, and the person blocked is not told.

It is not a punishment and you do not owe anybody an explanation for it. Use it early. Reporting is for things that break the rules; blocking is for anybody you would simply rather not deal with, and the two are separate on purpose.

Mentioning people

Writing @somebody in a caption, comment or wall post notifies them and links to their profile. Use it to credit a guide, a model, or whoever found the spot. Do not use it to pull somebody into an argument.

Last updated 7 August 2026